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Microsoft unveiled an elaborately shrouded product announcement Monday, showing off a new Windows 8-based tablet called the Surface at a press event in Hollywood. Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer took the stage at a small Hollywood production facility to introduce the new product, which the company hopes can cut into the...

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The importance of privacy has been dwindling for quite some time, and smartphones have become one of the biggest culprits. Allegations against Carrier IQ, location-based tracking, the recent concerns about Path snatching up iOS address book information -- all of these are just a few examples of mobile carriers...

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Carrier IQ has announced the extension of its IQ Care platform to enable mobile operators to share the insight gained with its customers. The analytics software measures diagnostic information on your phone relating to network usage, battery life and dropped calls. Previously it's only been available to customer care...

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It's been several months since Carrier IQ explained its data collection practices and responded to FCC and Senatorial inquiry about its privacy policies. Despite the fact that it's no longer in the headlines, Carrier IQ's still intent on improving how it handles consumer info. That's why the firm has...

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Following the release of its smartphone hands-free car kit, TomTom is previewing its new navigation app for Android handsets at Teutonic trade show IFA. When it arrives in October, it'll offer navigation, traffic and IQ routes to tempt users away from Google's bundled navigation applications and onto the company's...

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If you can do basic subtraction, you might just be more math-savvy than a lot U.S. college students. A new research paper looks at the mathematical prowess of the roughly 50 percent of community college students in remedial math and finds our national math IQ lacking [DOC]. Below are a...

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New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin is trying to whip up some hysteria around the relatively straight laced IPO filing from Facebook this morning. The gist of his column: Facebook says it has 845 million monthly active users, but "active users" doesn't necessarily mean a user is coming...

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Google finally merged its Chrome browser with the Android mobile operating system today and I’m thrilled to see it. Not only is the new Chrome beta about 15 percent faster than the stock Android browser, it brings a cleaner interface that makes it easier to browse. And if you’re a...

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Getting set up with Sony's latest handheld can be an incredible drain on the wallet, what with the cost of pricey, proprietary memory cards and actual games to play. Consider this then the company's way of tossing early adopters a bone, because for a limited time Vita owners can...

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Not to load you up on Google news today or anything, but in addition to the launch of Google’s new Activity Reports this morning, the company is also announcing the arrival of some of its first fully featured apps for Google+ Hangouts. For the most part, the starter set of...

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And lo, the Verizon-Vodafone rumor mill rumbles on. Just weeks after Verizon scotched rumors that it was planning a $245 billion takeover of its British counterpart, we have a new report, coming out of Reuters, that suggests Verizon is now preparing to buy out Voda’s share in their joint venture,...

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TomTom has announced that it is previewing an Android version of its popular navigation software at IFA 2012 this week. The Android app, set to debut in October, will include lifetime map updates, IQ route planning, lane guidance, and spoken street names. TomTom will also offer its HD Traffic...

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When I held the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show, I was hooked. After all, I’ve been using a Galaxy Tab daily for 14 months. The new Tab is slimmer, has a vastly improved display, more RAM and 1.4 GHz dual-core processor. This combination led me...

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Earlier this week we wrote about the Flynn Effect, which is the theory that worldwide IQ has been steadily increasing over the past century. We came across more intelligence research by Jonathan Wai of the Duke University Talent Identification Program, who co-authored the paper on how SAT scores prove that we...

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There are now over a billion smartphones in use worldwide, according to new data - and that figure is expected to double in just three years. And, given that it's taken 16 years to get to the magic number, citing 1996's Nokia Communicator as the first time a mobile communications...

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It's like Highlights for kids, but with a decidedly techno-centric spin. The company known more for what it's put inside our gadgetry has just unveiled a new digital magazine, iQ, intended for the youthful, über-connected masses. Looking much like Flipboard in design and borrowing a live tile-ish approach, the...

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As of today, there are now 1.5 million Android devices being activated every day, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. That’s led to more than 750 million Android phones currently in use. But he said the current rate of signups and phones being sold means Android devices in use “will cross...

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Author Gina Keating reveals some of Netflix's secrets in her upcoming book, such as the price Amazon offered to pay to acquire Netflix and the belief of some that Reed Hastings has a "social IQ of zero." [Read more]...

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Today, enterprise-focused Tealium announced that it has raised a $10.5 million Series B round of funding from Battery Ventures. Battery’s Neeraj Agrawal will be joining its board of directions as part of the deal. Interestingly, Tealium raised its Series A round recently, in January of this year. That funding was a total of $1.1 million,...

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Though it is struggling financially, Taiwanese handset maker HTC has pledged to continue its policy of working with operators to customize devices to their requirements and services, after a senior executive called the approach “essential”. Speaking in Taipei, where the firm launched an NFC-centric version of its HTC One smartphone...

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LAS VEGAS--Lazy or inexperienced cooks across America long for a future where appliances instinctively know how to make a meal. Well, the future is almost here. Luxury appliance maker Dacor expects to introduces its 30-inch, Android-powered Discovery wall oven this week at the International CES. The company says the...

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Let’s say you forgot to preorder the new iPad. Shipping times are currently two to three weeks, but perhaps you want one on Friday, the first day they’re available. You can always go old-school and line up outside a store. Apple announced Wednesday that its stores will open at 8...

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Verizon Communications is the first U.S. operator out of the gate in the second quarter earnings heat, reporting 1.2 million new net subscriber adds in its wireless division and 134,000 new FiOS residential broadband customers in its wireline group. Verizon Wireless ended June with 94.2 million retail customers, 88.8 million...

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Toshiba isn't the first name you'd associate with exciting products, but recently we were invited to check out its 2013 selection of AV gear in the hope we'd be dazzled by pixel counts and the IQ of its revamped smart TV platform. We revisited a few products we had...

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While there's been plenty of talk about the upcoming ITU process, the ITU keeps attempting to downplay what it's trying to do -- and insisting that Russia, China and other regimes aren't looking to use the process to clamp down on the internet. Of course, proposal leaks from Russia suggest...

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It’s not as if the Samsung Galaxy S 4 itself is a surprise: The phone was introduced in the U.S. last month. Details on pricing and availability, however, are just arriving now, with T-Mobile and Sprint both announcing their plans, while AT&T has updated its Galaxy S 4 order page...

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Intel is launching a new Metro-styled webzine called iQ that combines staff-written content with news from across the web in an effort to get the company's brand story out to a younger audience. The site uses a combination of filtering algorithms and employee curation to determine what goes on...

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Today Tealium, a company that vends enterprise tag management service, announced a $15.6 million Series C round of funding, from Battery Ventures, Presidio Ventures, and Tenaya Ventures. Battery previously led Tealium’s $10.5 million Series B. To date, the company has raised roughly $27.2 million across three rounds of funding, based on...

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Pinfluencer, the third-party and unofficial marketing and analytics service for Pinterest, has rebranded itself as Piqora. It is now billing itself as “The Complete Marketing Suite for Pinterest”. In collaboration with its launch, the company is also launching a new gallery product, something it says is a fully-embeddable, social e-commerce...

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Facebook has purchased Face.com, a startup that develops facial recognition technology for mobile devices. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase could give Facebook a way to introduce new photo-sharing capabilities. Face.com announced the acquisition on its site this morning: We love building products, and like our friends...